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 The T I T L E S of the S T A.T UTES. and for obviating Queftions relating to Appeals in mat- ters of Excife ; and for appointing the Number of Com- miffioners of Excife, who may hear Caufes depending before them. 17. An Act for repealing the prefent Duties on Wine Lees, and Lignum Vita, and laying new Duties on Wine Lees ; and for prohibiting the Importation of Wine in Flafks, Bottles, or fmall Cafks ; and for preventing Frauds in exporting Silk Manufactures ; and for fupplying the Want of regular Certificates of fuch Manufactures being landed in Foreign Parts, where fuch Certificates cannot be had ; and for giving further Time to Clerks and Ap- prentices, to pay Duties omitted to be paid for their In- dentures and Contracts. 18. An Act to explain and amend an Act made in the twelfth Year of the Reign of his late Majefty King George the Firft, for building a Bridge crofs the River of 'Thames, from the Town of Fulbam in the County of Middlefex, to the Town of Putney in the County of Surrey ; and for ' making the faid Act more effectual. 19. An Aft for punifhing fuch Perfons as fhall wilfully and malicioufly pull down or deftroy Turnpikes for repairing • Highways, or Locks, or other Works, erected by Au- thority of Parliament, for making Rivers navigable. 20. An Act for erecting a Workhoufe in the City of Can- terbury, for employing and maintaining the Poor there, and for better enlightning the Streets of the faid City. 21. An Act to explain and amend an Act palled in the thir- teenth Year of his late Majefty's Reign, intituled, An Acl for Sale of fuch of the forfeited Ef/ates in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland, as ?-emain unfold, and are vefted in the Grown ; and for determining fuch Claims on the faid Eflates, as, having been duly entered, remain unde- termined. 22. An Act to explain the Acts of the third and ninth Years of his late Majefty's Reign, for continuing the Duty of two Penny Scots on every Pint of Ale and Beer fold in the City of Edinburgh, in relation to the Payment of Petty Port Cuftoms ; and for the more effectual (ecuring the Payment of fuch Money, as hath been, or fhall be con- tributed towards a Charitable Fund for Relief of fuch as fhall fuffer by Fire in the faid City, and the Suburbs and Liberties thereof. 23. An Act for indemnifying Perfons who have omitted to qualify themfelves for Offices and Employments within the Time limited by Law, and for allowing further Time for that Purpofe ; and for repealing fo much of two Acts of Parliament therein mentioned, as requires Perfons to qualify themfelves to continue in Offices or Employments for the Space of fix Months, after the Demife of his Ma- jefty, his Heirs or Succeffors. PRIVATE ACTS. Anno 1 Georgii II. 1. A N Act to enable Robert Ellifon Efq; and the Heirs jT%. and Ifiiie of his Body, to take and ufe the Surname •of Carre, according to the Will of his Uncle Francis Carre, Efq; deceafed. 2. An Act for naturalizing Abraham TVeffelow. 3. An Act for naturalizing Adam Oldenburg, Phillipe Du- mouftier, and others. 4. An Act to fettle a Jointure on Sufanna Countefs of Shaftejbury, Wife of Anthony Earl of Shaftefbury, in lieu and bar of her Dower or Thirds at the Common Law. 5. An Act to enable the Guardians of the Lord George Ben- tincke, fecdnd Son of Henry late Duke of Portland,, to make Leafes of certain Houfes, Grounds, and Tene- ments in Soho, during the Minority of the faid Lord George, for making Proyifion for his Maintenance, and for other Purpofes therein mentioned. 6. An Act for confirming the Partitions of the Eftates late of Sir William Davie Baronet deceafed, among his Co- heirs, and for fettling their Shares thereof, in Severalty to the fame Ufes to which their feveral undivided Parts there- of ftood limited before the Partition. 7. An Act for vefting the Eftate of William Bromley Efq; and Mary his Wife, lying at Sundon in the County of Bedford, in_ Truftees, to be fold purfuant to an Agree- ment in their Marriage-Settlement. 8. An Act to enable Chrijlopher Crowe of Woodford- Hall, in the County of EJJex, Efq; to fell or otherwife difpofe of the Manfion-Houfe called Woodford- Hall, and all other his Lands and Hereditaments at Woodford, comprifed in his Settlement thereof, he having fettled other Lands and Hereditaments in the County of York, of greater Value, to the fame Ufes in lieu thereof. 9. An Act to enable the Guardians of Anna Elizabetha Bealing, an Infant about four Years old, appointed by this Act, to grant Building Leafes of her fourth Part and Share of and in certain Meffuages, Grounds, and Here- ditaments, in or near the Parifh of St. Andrew Holbourn, in the County of Middlefex. 10. An Act for vefting the Manors of Shirfield, and divers Lands and Hereditaments in the Countyof Southampton, the Eftate of Granville Wheler Efq; in Truftees,' dif- charged of the Ufes in a former Settlement, he having fettled an Eftate in the County of Kent to the fame Ufes in lieu thereof. 11. An Act to enable Thomas Brown Gent, to grant Build- ing Leafes of his Eftate in the Town of Manchefter, in the County of Lancafler. 12. An Act for appointing Commiflioners to make a Divi- fion of certain common Fields, Lands, and Waftes in the Parifh of (Sherrington, in the County of Gloucejler, amon» the Proprietors, in order to inclof? the fame. 13. An Act for naturalizing John Lanove. 14. An Act for enabling Charles Duke of Grafton, Lord of the Manor of Grafton, in the County of Northampton, to inclofe the Common Fields and Wafts Grounds within the faid Manor, in purfuance of feveral Agreements be- tween the faid Duke, and the Rector and Churchwardens of the Parifh of Grafton Regis, and to eftablifti the faid Agreements. 15. An Act for vefting in Truftees, divers Lands in the fe- veral Counties of Berks, Bucks, Wilis, Oxford and York, the Eftate of David Earl of Buchan, for the Purpofes therein mentioned. 16. An Act to enable the CoTsmiffioners of the Treafury, or the Lord High Treafurcr for the Time being, to com- pound with George Townfend, Montague Bacon, John At- wood and John Burton, late Commiflioners for licenfing Hawkers, Pedlars and Petty Chapmen, for a Debt they ftand charged with to the Crown. 17. An Act to enable the Commiflioners of the Treafury, or the Lord High Treafurer for the Time being, to com- pound with Thomas Hammond, late of London, Merchant, and his Sureties, for a Debt due to the Crown for Cu- ftoms on Tobacco and Wines. 18. An A& for vefting the Eftate of Sir Halpwell Tynte Bart, and Dame Mary his Wife (in Right" of Dame Mary) in Truftees, to be fettled to the Ufes in their Marriage Articles. 19. An Act for vefting the Eftate late of Sir John Witte- wronge Bart, deceafed, in the County of Bucks, in Trus- tees, to enable them to convey the fame to the moft no- ble Sarah Duchefe Dowager of Marlborough, thePurcha- fer thereof, under a Decree of the High Court of Chan- cery. 20. An